Celebrating The Hero's Birthday

Before my sweetheart died, he gave me the best gift I could ever have asked for.  It has taken three years to really accomplish it, but I am really working in the raised garden he insisted on having built for me before he died.

He had the joy of planting it the spring before he died.  Last year, I planted some, but really wasn't home enough to work it correctly.  I reaped that benefit, I am fighting fire ants like crazy.  Once again, I digress.






This spring I have planned my plants, and where to plant them.  I decided to plant strawberries in one corner and blueberries in the far end. I ordered 25 strawberries from Stark Bros. and they arrived yesterday.  Today, I planted the strawberries in the garden.
I was happy as I finished.  I feel I am saying thank you to him for his effort to make something that would help me for years to come.  I am grateful that he loved me enough to have done this.  I just wish he were here to play with me in the garden too.  Well, I planted one of his shoes with Thyme for a giggle in the garden.  He would have had fun with it.  "Running out of Thyme?"

This is my entrance, you notice there is a hanging pot of strawberries.  I have my flag.  The garden is in its infant stage, but I have great hopes for it.  My beans have come up, I have planted 5 different kinds to see which gives the best yield.  I have 4 bush  one package was from Renee's Garden .  They are called Tricolor Slenderette Beans.  The other is a Blue Lake Bush bean, and a pole bean called Scarlet Runner.  They are up and appear to be flourishing.  My Holy Basil has peeped up over the edge of the soil, but that is for a different post.

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